World Food Books

Robert Mapplethorpe
Black Males

1980, English
Softcover, 60 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Galerie Jurka / Amsterdam

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Very scarce first edition of Robert Mapplethorpe's Black Males, published in 1980 by Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam. Dutch gallery owner Robert Jurka was instrumental in the early reception of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography in Europe, exhibiting for the first time many of his (now) world-renowned photographs. Following an early Mapplethorpe monograph from 1979, Jurka also published the first Black Males catalogue as part of the homonymous exhibition he organized in 1980 at Galerie Jurka. With an introductory essay by Edmund White, this first 1980 edition remains the most sought after printing of this beautiful and controversial series by Mapplethorpe.

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) took his first photographs using a Polaroid camera. His first Polaroids were self-portraits and the first of a series of portraits of his close friend, the singer-artist-poet Patti Smith. These early photographic works were generally shown in groups or elaborately presented in shaped and painted frames that were as significant to the finished piece as the photograph itself. Then he acquired a large format press camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. These included artists, composers, socialites, pornographic film stars and members of the S & M underground. Some of these photographs were shocking for their content but exquisite in their technical mastery. During the early 1980s, Mapplethorpe’s photographs began a shift toward a phase of refinement of subject and an emphasis on classical formal beauty. During this period he concentrated on statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and formal portraits of artists and celebrities.

Good copy throughout with light wear. Note coffee marking to covers and previous owner's name penned into first blank page. Interior otherwise clean, tight and overall well preserved.

File under: Robert Mapplethorpe Edmund White Galerie Jurka / Amsterdam Photography Out-of-print / Rare Eros LGBTQ+ SALE

Just Kids
by Patti Smith

2010, English
Hardcover (dust jacket), 304 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Ecco Press / New York

$60.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning classic, Just Kids, published by Ecco Press in 2010.

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.

Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-Second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous, the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years.

Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.

Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Her seminal album Horses, bearing Robert Mapplethorpe's renowned photograph, has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time. Her books include M Train, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket with light general wear to extremities and block edges.

File under: Patti Smith Robert Mapplethorpe Ecco Press / New York Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Art Out-of-print / Rare

On The Museum's Ruins
by Douglas Crimp (photographs by Louise Lawler)

1995, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 17.8 x 234 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$70.00 - Out of stock

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First 1995 edition and printing of Douglas Crimp's classic, On The Museum's Ruins, published by MIT Press.

On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived, not only the practices of artists—Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Serra, Sherrie Levine, and Robert Mapplethorpe—but those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums such as the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.

The essays:

Photographs at the End of Modernism.
On the Museum's Ruins.
The Museum's Old, the Library's New Subject.
The End of Painting.
The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism.
Appropriating Appropriation.
Redefining Site Specificity.
This is Not a Museum of Art.
The Art of Exhibition.
The Postmodern Museum.

Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of On the Museum’s Ruins and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, both published by the MIT Press.

“Literate and provocative speculations about art, photography, postmodernism, homoeroticism, Rauchenberg and Mapplethorpe, museums and libraries.”

“Crimp's essays comprise one of the most interesting and incisive bodies of work on practices of contemporary art in relationships to art as institution.”
—Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

File under: Cindy Sherman Louise Lawler Marcel Broodthaers Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Rauschenberg Sherrie Levine Douglas Crimp The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Super Bizarre Collection
Photographs by Masatoshi Osanai

1989, Japanese
Softcover, 115 pages, 18.2 x 25.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo Taiyo Tosho / Japan

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Rare and amazing 1989 special edition Japanese fetishwear catalogue showcasing clothing and paraphernalia — latex, rubber, leather, gag, underwear, footwear, heel and boot, tool... An incredibly stylish and gorgeous design throughout, with wonderful erotic photography "SCENES" shot by Masatoshi Osanai, featuring the talents of Hitomi Kudo, Junko Kanae, Sayoko Nakajima, Rinko Tachibana, Hana Inoue, Hidemi Hayakawa. Published by S&M Sniper's Million imprint and Taiyo Tosho, the photo collection is also interspersed with hypertexts to compliment the imagery — small articles covering themes of Biomechanoid Restraints, Industrial Baroque, Bondage Dolls, etc. and photo clippings of complimentary erotic photographers — Helmut Newton, Bob Carlos Clark, David Bailey, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joel-Peter Witkin, Nobuyoshi Araki, Kishin Shinoyama, plus art clippings — Christo, Minimal Art, Eric Satie, Arvo Pärt, etc... why you wonder? Possibly because it was designed by Ryuichi Sakamoto! Very sophisticated fetishism from Japan.

VG—NF copy, slight bowing.

File under: Masatoshi Osanai Hitomi Kudo Junko Kanae Sayoko Nakajima Rinko Tachibana Hana Inoue Hidemi Hayakawa Helmut Newton Bob Carlos Clark David Bailey Robert Mapplethorpe Nobuyoshi Araki Kishin Shinoyama Joel Peter Witkin Ryuichi Sakamoto Million Publishing / Tokyo Taiyo Tosho / Japan Eros Fashion Japanese Photography Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM

NEW NUDE 3

1986, Japanese
Softcover, 276 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Camera Mainichi and The Mainichi Graphic / Japan

$120.00 $80.00 - Out of stock

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First printing of NEW NUDE 3, published in Japan in 1985 as part of a unique and short-lived book series published by the mighty Camera Mainchi house, showcasing leading photographers and artists on the subject of the nude. Opening with illustrated essays by photo critic Kōtarō Iizawa and others, this lovely volume, printed in Japan, presents works generously and sympathetically presented in colour and black-and-white across various paper-stocks. Includes the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Masahisa Fukase, Keiichi Tahara, Noriaki Yokosuka, Irina Ionesco, Hennri Maccheroni, Keizo Kitajima, Takashi Ishii, Richard Cerf, Ayako Parks, Taku Aramasa Seiji Kurata, Jean-Jacques Dicker, Flip and Debra Schulke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marie-Claire Montanari, Lee Friedlander, Jaques Schumacher, Joyce Tenneson, Herlinde Koelbl, and many others.

Very Good copy. Light wear, crease to one front cover bottom corner.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Daido Moriyama Masahisa Fukase Keiichi Tahara Noriaki Yokosuka Irina Ionesco Hennri Maccheroni Keizo Kitajima Takashi Ishii Richard Cerf Ayako Parks Taku Aramasa Seiji Kurata Jean-Jacques Dicker Flip and Debra Schulke Robert Mapplethorpe Marie-Claire Montanari Lee Friedlander Jaques Schumacher Joyce Tenneson Herlinde Koelbl Camera Mainichi and The Mainichi Graphic / Japan Eros Out-of-print / Rare Photography Japanese Photography LGBTQ+ SALE Art

Dorothy Dean — Who Are You Dorothy Dean?

2024, English / French
Softcover, 296 pages, 13 x 19.6 cm
Published by Éditions 1989 / Paris

$49.00 - In stock -

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The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean, one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Edited by Anaïs Ngbanzo, this second release from Éditions 1989 features Dorothy Dean's unpublished writing and selected correspondence with Edie Sedgwick, Rene Ricard, and Taylor Mead, among other friends and artists. This volume also includes Dean's transcendent script of an unrealized film starring Factory actor, Ondine.

Lyrical, humorous, political, and brutally honest, Who Are You Dorothy Dean? is a tribute to one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday.

Dorothy Dean (1932-1987) was an African American writer and actress. She entered the 1960s New York underground scene and quickly became one of its key, if overlooked, figures, starring in six of Andy Warhol's films and inspiring the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe and Robert Creeley. Presumably the first woman ever hired as fact-checker at The New Yorker, Dean held brief editorial and proofreading positions at publications such as Vogue before launching her very own bulletin of film reviews, the All-Lavender Cinema Courier, in 1976.

Texts by Dorothy Dean, Edie Sedgwick, Robert Creeley, Gerard Malanga, Rene Ricard, Taylor Mead, et al. Translated from the English (American) by Rachel Valinsky. Graphic design: Rick Myers.

File under: Robert Mapplethorpe Andy Warhol Dorothy Dean Gerard Malanga Robert Creeley Dorothy Dean Edie Sedgwick Gerard Malanga Rene Ricard Taylor Mead Éditions 1989 / Paris Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Film / Video

Tom of Finland
Retrospective Exhibition 1994-95

1995, English / German
Softcover (staple-bound), 62 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom of Finland Foundation / Los Angeles

$140.00 - In stock -

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Rare copy of Tom of Finland Exhibition 1994-95, published in 1995 by the Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition held in 1994 and the Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany. Profusely illustrated with many unseen works, as well as photographs and documents tracing the life and work of Touko Valio Laaksonen (1920—1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images"(—Joseph W. Slade). Every period accounted for, from Tom's early commercial work to his most hardcore gay erotica, his sketch-books, his prints to his very last work. An incredible insight into this prolific artist of enduring influence. Texts throughout in English and German by president of Tom of Finland Foundation Durk Dehner and German art critic Wolfgang Max Faust, amongst others, plus chronology,

“Sometimes the attraction of the uniform is so powerful in me that I get the feeling that I am making love to the clothes and the man inside is just there to hold them up and give them shape, sort of like an animated department store dummy.”

Very Good, well preserved copy with light bump top of spine, crease to bottom front cover.

File under: Tom of Finland Robert Mapplethorpe Durk Dehner Wolfgang Max Faust Tom of Finland Foundation / Los Angeles Art Drawing Eros LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare

SALE2 No.30
SPECIAL ISSUE

1987, Japanese
Softcover, 168 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$80.00 - In stock -

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Issue No.30 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.30, the "Special Issue" features Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Richard Cerf, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Paul Wunderlich, Robert Maplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, Lewis Carroll, John Willie, Bernard Montorgueil, Guido Crepax, Van Rod, Carlo, Betty Page, Tealdo, clippings from periodicals such as Amateur Bondage, Bondage Life, Bondage Fantasies, Bizarre Comix, Bizarre Classix, Bizarre Fotos, and much more...

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy with tanning to pages.

File under: Andy Warhol Bernard Montorgueil Betty Page Carlo Guido Crepax Hans Bellmer John Willie Leonor Fini Lewis Carroll Man Ray Paul Wunderlich Richard Cerf Robert Mapplethorpe Tealdo Van Rod Gilles Deleuze Michel Foucault Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Art Counterculture Eros Fashion Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay LGBTQ+

S&M Sniper
November 1988

1988, Japanese
Softcover, 300 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

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November 1988 issue of S&M Sniper, the cutting-edge cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979—2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM counterculture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, each issue came wrapped in the iconic hyper-stylized airbrushed front covers of artist Yosuke Onishi, veiling the core content of non-fiction realist degradation and an eclectic, expressive editorial of kinbaku and all manner of SM, and extreme fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), legendary SM writer and editor Dan Oniroku ("the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan"), features by legendary SM and seppuku performer, actress, and author Hiromi Saotome, features by contributing photographers Nobuyoshi Araki, Masaaki Toyoura, Kenichi Murata, Nobuhiko Ansai, Kinichi Tanaka, Domu Kitahara, sadistic BDSM trainer Shima Shikou, and regular writings by convicted murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa!! Including his translations of Guido Crepax comics from Italian to Japanese. This was not a magazine like the others. Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, dungeons, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more.

This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Yosuke Onishi, Nobuhiko Ansai, Katsu Yoshida, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kinichi Tanaka, Masahito Tokuno, Aki Masatoshi, Hajime Tomokyo, controversial Japanese author Shōzō Numa (Yapoo, the Human Cattle), bondage master and legendary Kitan editor Akira Minomura, Erika Sakurazawa, Yukimasa Okumura, Yayoi Honda, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.

Very Good copy.

File under: Aki Masatoshi Nobuyoshi Araki Yosuke Onishi Nobuhiko Ansai Katsu Yoshida Robert Mapplethorpe Kinichi Tanaka Masahito Tokuno Hajime Tomokyo Akira Minomura Erika Sakurazawa Yukimasa Okumura Yayoi Honda Akira Minomura Shōzō Numa Million Publishing / Tokyo Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Japanese Photography Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Edgewise — a Picture of Cookie Mueller
By Chloé Griffin

2014 / 2022, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 15 x 23 cm
Published by Bbooks Verlag / Germany

$60.00 - Out of stock

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Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as an actress in the films of John Waters, and then as an art critic and columnist, a writer of hilarious stories and a maven of New York's downtown art world. Edgewise, by Berlin-based actress and writer Chloé Griffin, tells the story of Cookie's life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with the people who knew her, including John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary Indiana, Sharon Niesp, Max Mueller, Linda Yablonsky, Richard Hell, Amos Poe and Raymond Foye. The contributors take us from the late-1960s artist communes of Baltimore to 1970s Provincetown and New York, through 1980s Berlin and Positano. Along with the text, Edgewise includes artwork, unpublished photographs and archival material and photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Peter Hujar.

File under: Cookie Mueller Philip-Lorca diCorcia David Armstrong Robert Mapplethorpe Peter Hujar Mink Stole John Waters Cookie Mueller Gary Indiana Chloé Griffin Richard Hell Bbooks Verlag / Germany Fiction / Poetry Feminism Film / Video

S&M SNIPER
March 1993

1993, Japanese
Softcover, 300 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo

$80.00 - Out of stock

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March 1993 issue of S&M Sniper, the cutting-edge cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979—2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM counterculture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, each issue came wrapped in the iconic hyper-stylized airbrushed front covers of artist Yosuke Onishi, veiling the core content of non-fiction realist degradation and an eclectic, expressive editorial of kinbaku and all manner of SM, and extreme fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), legendary SM writer and editor Dan Oniroku ("the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan"), features by legendary SM and seppuku performer, actress, and author Hiromi Saotome, features by contributing photographers Nobuyoshi Araki, Masaaki Toyoura, Kenichi Murata, Nobuhiko Ansai, Kinichi Tanaka, Domu Kitahara, sadistic BDSM trainer Shima Shikou, and regular writings by convicted murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa!! Including his translations of Guido Crepax comics from Italian to Japanese. This was not a magazine like the others. Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, dungeons, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, Yosuke Onishi, Domu Kitahara, Tadao Chigusa, Kenichi Yamakawa, Shima Shikou, Aki Ryo, Kinichi Tanaka, Wakao Takahashi, Chihiro Abe, Robert Mapplethorpe, Takashi Ishii, Hiroyuki Tanino, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.

Very Good copy.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Kiyoshi Ikejiri Nobuyoshi Araki Yosuke Onishi Shima Shikou Aki Ryo Kinichi Tanaka Wakao Takahashi Chihiro Abe Robert Mapplethorpe Takashi Ishii Hiroyuki Tanino Masami Akita (Merzbow) Tadao Chigusa Kenichi Yamakawa Million Publishing / Tokyo Eros Fetishism / BDSM Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture

S&M Sniper
October 1989

1989, Japanese
Softcover, 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo

$80.00 - Out of stock

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October 1989 issue of S&M Sniper, the cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979 - 2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM culture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, issues are packed from cover-to-cover with all manner of SM and fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as Masami Akita (Merzbow), Kazuo Kamimura, Domu Kitahara, Makoto Orui, Kinichi Tanaka, Nobuhiko Ansai, Masaaki Toyoura... Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Tadao Chigusa, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tsuguya Inoue, Joel Peter-Witkin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Keizo Miyanishi, Sayoko Nakajima, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.

Very Good copy.

File under: Joel Peter Witkin Robert Mapplethorpe Nobuyoshi Araki Tsuguya Inoue Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden Keizo Miyanishi Sayoko Nakajima Masami Akita (Merzbow) Million Publishing / Tokyo Eros Periodicals Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture

Robert Mapplethorpe
Flowers

1983, English
Softcover, 42 pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Galerie Watari / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce and beautiful Robert Mapplethorpe Japanese catalogue published on the occasion of his solo exhibition "Flowers" at Galerie Watari in Tokyo in 1983. Profusely illustrated throughout with a beautiful selection of Mapplethorpe's flower still-life photographs from 1981-82, followed by his photographs of Dennis Speight, Charles Bowman and Ron Simms, well known from his 1980 "Black Males" series, and "Marty and Veronica" from 1982. Includes English introduction by Sam Wagstaff, Mapplethorpe self-portrait and printed signature, and exhibition history. Seldom seen Mapplethorpe book, filed perfectly alongside the great Galerie Jurka catalogues.

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) took his first photographs using a Polaroid camera. His first Polaroids were self-portraits and the first of a series of portraits of his close friend, the singer-artist-poet Patti Smith. These early photographic works were generally shown in groups or elaborately presented in shaped and painted frames that were as significant to the finished piece as the photograph itself. Then he acquired a large format press camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. These included artists, composers, socialites, pornographic film stars and members of the S & M underground. Some of these photographs were shocking for their content but exquisite in their technical mastery. During the early 1980s, Mapplethorpe’s photographs began a shift toward a phase of refinement of subject and an emphasis on classical formal beauty. During this period he concentrated on statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and formal portraits of artists and celebrities.

Good copy with some light marking/tanning to covers, otherwise Very Good copy, tightly bound and clean through.

File under: Robert Mapplethorpe Galerie Watari / Tokyo Art Photography Eros Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+

Robert Mapplethorpe
Pictures

2018, English / Portuguese
Hardcover, 400 pages, 32 x 25 cm
Published by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto

$130.00 - Out of stock

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This luxurious comprehensive catalogue, lavishly illustrated, brings together works from throughout the artist’s career, from early collages and Polaroids, to the images of flowers, nudes, sexuality and portraits that made him one of the most notable photographers of the last century.

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) took his first photographs using a Polaroid camera. His first Polaroids were self-portraits and the first of a series of portraits of his close friend, the singer-artist-poet Patti Smith. These early photographic works were generally shown in groups or elaborately presented in shaped and painted frames that were as significant to the finished piece as the photograph itself. Then he acquired a large format press camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. These included artists, composers, socialites, pornographic film stars and members of the S & M underground. Some of these photographs were shocking for their content but exquisite in their technical mastery. During the early 1980s, Mapplethorpe’s photographs began a shift toward a phase of refinement of subject and an emphasis on classical formal beauty. During this period he concentrated on statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and formal portraits of artists and celebrities.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, from September 20, 2018, to January 6, 2019.

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) took his first photographs using a Polaroid camera. His first Polaroids were self-portraits and the first of a series of portraits of his close friend, the singer-artist-poet Patti Smith. These early photographic works were generally shown in groups or elaborately presented in shaped and painted frames that were as significant to the finished piece as the photograph itself. Then he acquired a large format press camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. These included artists, composers, socialites, pornographic film stars and members of the S & M underground. Some of these photographs were shocking for their content but exquisite in their technical mastery. During the early 1980s, Mapplethorpe's photographs began a shift toward a phase of refinement of subject and an emphasis on classical formal beauty. During this period he concentrated on statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and formal portraits of artists and celebrities.

File under: Robert Mapplethorpe Susan Sontag Jonarhan K. Nelson Edith Cottrell Gary Indiana Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto Photography Eros LGBTQ+

Institute of Modern Art 1975-1989
A Documentary History - Bob Lingard, Sue Cramer (Eds.)

1989, English
Softcover, 134 pages, 21 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by IMA / Brisbane

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Institute of Modern Art 1975-1989 - A Documentary History, was edited by Bob Lingard, Sue Cramer in Brisbane in 1989, and takes an in-depth look at the history of a very important period of one of Australia's oldest contemporary art spaces. Through essays by Bob Lingard and Peter Anderson, exhibition photography, a full list of exhibitions, catalogues and bulletins, this publication retrospectively showcases the directorship years of Robert Jadin de Fronenteau, John Buckley, John Nixon, Barbara Campbell, Peter Cripps and Sue Cramer, exhibiting John Olsen, Robert MacPherson, Ian Hamilton, Sidney Nolan, John Baldessari, Peter Cripps, Gunter Christmann, David Hockney, Diane Arbus, Jenny Watson, Chuck Close, Joseph Kosuth, Paul Sharits, Mike Parr, Arthur Boyd, Robert Jacks, John Davis, Mario Merz, Peter Tyndall, Hilary Boscott, Imants Tillers, John Nixon, Elizabeth Gower, Janet Burchill, Tony Clark, Dale Frank, Henri Chopin, Scott Redford, Tim Johnson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vivienne Shark Lewitt, Fiona McDonald, Fiona Hall, Joanna Flynn, Jan Nelson, Joanna Ritson, Robert Hunter, Stephen Roach,Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lehan Ramsey, Hiram To, John Dunkley-Smith, Stieg Persson, Merilyn Fairskye, Linda Marrinon, Bill Henson, Fritz Rahman, Melinda Harper, Geoff Lowe, Lindy Lee, Eugene Carchesio, Diena Georgetti, Maria Kozic, Lyndal Jones, amongst many others!

"This publication documents the history of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane from its inception in 1975 until the present day (1989). In doing so, it provides a partial record, both visual and verbal, of the life of one particular institution and an insight into a ﬁfteen year history of exhibition-making within contemporary art. There can be no doubt that “Contemporary Art Spaces” (previously institutions such as the IMA were known as “alternative spaces”) have a crucial and unique role in supporting and developing contemporary art and curatorial practices within Australia. As the photographs of exhibitions, and the essays in this publication show, the Institute has played a signiﬁcant role over its ﬁfteen years as a venue not only for the exhibition of art that is being made in Brisbane itself, but also that of artists working elsewhere in Australia and overseas. It is worth remembering too that the Institute is the second oldest of the Contemporary Art Spaces in Australia. With this in mind, the Institute’s archive, from which this publication has been drawn, becomes a valuable resource in the study of recent art. The photographs published here oﬁer a visual record of individual works by many contemporary artists, a number of which may not have been published elsewhere. It is hoped therefore, that this publication might fruitfully be regarded as a source book from which more detailed projects of research can be undertaken. It is impossible in one publication to cover all of the activities and personalities, ideas, debates and discussions that have made up the life of the gallery. Alongside the exhibition program, the Institute has generated forums, lectures, ﬁlm screenings and publications as an important part of its activities..."
SUE CRAMER DIRECTOR, June 1989

File under: Arthur Boyd Bill Henson Chuck Close Dale Frank David Hockney Diane Arbus Diena Georgetti Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Elizabeth Gower Eugene Carchesio Fiona Hall Fiona McDonald Fritz Rahman Geoff Lowe Gunter Christmann Henri Chopin Hilary Boscott Hiram To Ian Hamilton Imants Tillers Jan Nelson Janet Burchill Jenny Watson Joanna Flynn Joanna Ritson John Baldessari John Davis John Dunkley-Smith John Nixon John Olsen Joseph Kosuth Lehan Ramsey Linda Marrinon Lindy Lee Lyndal Jones Maria Kozic Mario Merz Melinda Harper Merilyn Fairskye Mike Parr Paul Sharits Peter Cripps Peter Tyndall Robert Hunter Robert Jacks Robert Macpherson Robert Mapplethorpe Scott Redford Sidney Nolan Stephen Roach Stieg Persson Tim Johnson Tony Clark Vivienne Shark LeWitt Bob Lingard Peter Anderson Sue Cramer IMA / Brisbane Art Australian Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

TENSION 6
Jan / Feb 1985

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 44 pages, 27 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Tension 6 (Jan / Feb 1985) features "Gilded Lillies : Photographs of Fashion '84" - a spread of Australian fashion runways shot by Ashley Evans and Andrea Paton, John Lydon / Public Image, Lisa Lyon (interviewed by Faye Maxwell with illustrations by Katsu and photography by Robert Mapplethorpe), David Sylvian, Vivienne Shark Lewitt, poet Gerard Malanga, "On Location In Love" by Ted Colless, reviews of Videodrome and Metropolis by Adrian Martin, architectural drawings, and much more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Robert Mapplethorpe Vivienne Shark LeWitt David Cronenberg Lisa Lyon John Lydon Ted Colless Ashley Crawford Adrian Martin Gerard Malanga Tension / South Yarra Art Australian Art Fashion Sound / Music Film / Video Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Painting Photography

TENSION 13
Australian and International Arts : June 1988

1988, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 44 pages, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Tension 13 (Australian and International Arts : June 1988) features John Nixon (by Sue Cramer), Maria Kozic (by Adrian Martin), Jenny Watson (by Rose Lang), Robert Mapplethorpe (by Paul Taylor), Julian Schnabel (by Paul Taylor), "Masterpieces of Medical Photography", "Curatorial Strategies", exhibition reviews, and much more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Robert Mapplethorpe John Nixon Jenny Watson Maria Kozic Julian Schnabel Paul Taylor Adrian Martin Sue Cramer Ashley Crawford Tension / South Yarra Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Periodicals Australian Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Feminism Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial Architecture / Interior

Terrazzo Number 2
Spring 1989 (Ed. Barbara Radice)

1989, English
Softcover (french-folds), 160 pages, 34 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Terrazzo / Milan

$100.00 - Out of stock

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TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including photography, literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.

TERRAZZO 2
Spring 1989

ANDREA BRANZI
Architecture in shadow

FRANK GEHRY
Detailing by Frank Gehry
photographs by Santi Caleca

PAUL LUBOWICKI SUSAN LANIER projects

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
on architecture

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
glass

DESIGN FOR HEROES

TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on light
photographs by Ettore Sottsass

GREEK TEMPLES: THE POLYCHROMY
by Joseph Rykwert

FRAN LEBOWITZ ON ARCHITECTS
interview

PLANS (No. 2)
Islamic, the Middle Ages

File under: Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Francesco Clemente Frank Gehry Robert Mapplethorpe Andrea Branzi Barbara Radice Terrazzo / Milan Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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Softcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Lynda Benglis Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

ART & VINYL

2018, English
Hardcover, 464 pages, 31.8 x 31.8 cm
Published by Fraenkel Gallery - Editions Antoine De Beaupré / San Francisco

$135.00 - Out of stock

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Art & Vinyl is an exhilarating new look into the history of the vinyl record as a medium for modern and contemporary visual art. This beautifully designed and printed publication is the first book to focus in-depth on works of art created specifically for an album, composer or musician.

With reproductions of more than 200 LPs from the mid-20th century to the present, Art & Vinyl traces the trajectory of how the record album has been considered by artists as material for a work of art. The book begins with Pablo Picasso’s 1949 depiction of the dove of peace, printed directly on an audio disc. Significantly, the recording was Paul Robeson’s Chante Pour La Paix (Singing for Peace). Art & Vinyl also includes works by artists as disparate and wide-ranging as Ed Ruscha, Marlene Dumas, Cy Twombly, Yoko Ono, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbara Kruger, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt, Sophie Calle and Andy Warhol.

Highlights include Gerhard Richter’s extraordinary oil painting made directly on a recording of Glenn Gould’s Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1984), as well as Allan Kaprow’s LP How to Make a Happening (1966). Also featured are albums of original recordings by Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Jean Dubuffet, Christian Marclay and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others. Some of the better-known artists’ covers for rock, pop and jazz albums featured here are Jann Haworth and Peter Blake’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Jim Dine’s cover for The Best of Cream; Lee Friedlander’s portrait of Miles Davis for In a Silent Way; Warhol’s cover for Sticky Fingers and Robert Frank’s Exile on Main Street; Mapplethorpe’s classic Patti Smith portrait for Horses; Robert Longo’s cover for Glenn Branca’s The Ascension; Fischli/Weiss’s Liliput; and Alec Soth’s cover for Dolorean’s The Unfazed.

Art & Vinyl has been assembled over the course of nearly a decade by curator and collector Antoine de Beaupré, author of Total Records and founder of Librarie Galerie 213 in Paris.

File under: Pablo Picasso Joseph Beuys Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Philip Glass John Cage Robert Mapplethorpe Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Glenn Branca Alec Soth Patti Smith Robert Longo Raymond Pettibon Keith Haring Malcolm McLaren Ed Ruscha Marlene Dumas Cy Twombly Yoko Ono Jean-Michel Basquiat Barbara Kruger Robert Rauschenberg Sol LeWitt Sophie Calle Andy Warhol Allan Kaprow Glenn Gould The Rolling Stones Gerhard Richter Yves Klein Jean Dubuffet Christian Marclay Wolfgang Tillmans Jim Dine Lee Friedlander Miles Davis Sonic Youth Antoine de Beaupré Jeffrey Fraenkel Fraenkel Gallery - Editions Antoine De Beaupré / San Francisco Art Sound / Music Pop Art Fluxus

File Megazine Vol.4 No.2 Fall 1979
"TRANSGRESSIONS"

1979, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 28 × 36 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Art Official Inc. / Toronto

$75.00 - Out of stock

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FILE Megazine (published 1972–1989) was a quarterly, then irregularly published art and culture magazine, written, edited and published primarily by members of General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal).

The visual design and identity of FILE Megazine was a deliberate appropriation of LIFE Magazine. FILE's initial logo was the white block letters on red rectangle of the LIFE logo, with the letters re-arranged. This corresponded with the group's desire that the magazine be a “parasite within the world of magazine distribution”. The familiarity of the format would entice a broad range of unsuspecting readers outside the art- or mail-art worlds (including LIFE readers) to pick it up from newsstands. Initially the magazine served a dual purpose. It was a record and site of activity for the international mail/correspondence-art movement - the first mail-art project in magazine format. It was also the mouthpiece of General Idea, with editorials for each issue written by the group, elaborating on the group's core conceptual principles. The writing style of these editorials is noteworthy for its heavily ironic use of language, a parody of advertising copy, laced with double-entendres. Over the years the focus of FILE Megazine broadened to include the wider arts, culture and entertainment world, as General Idea's founders moved increasingly among the New York downtown circles of the 70s and 80s.

This "TRANSGRESSIONS" issue (edited by General Idea and Rodney Werden) includes Kathy Acker, Guy Hocquenghem, David Byrne, Jean Genet, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Colin Campbell, Francesco Clemente, The Clichettes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Martha and the Muffins, and others. Features the famous Nazi Milk Glass cover by General Idea.

General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1967 to 1994. As pioneers of early conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated activities and continues to be a prominent influence on subsequent generations of artists. General Idea's work inhabited and subverted forms of popular and media culture, including boutiques, television talk shows, trade fair pavilions, mass media, beauty pageants and publishing (they published the highly acclaimed FILE magazine). From 1987 through 1994 their work addressed the AIDS crisis, creating numerous public works and making some of their most iconic works of art. After publishing FILE Megazine for two years and amassing a large collection of artists books and multiples, General Idea founded Art Metropole in 1974, a non-profit space dedicated to contemporary art in multiple format: artists books, multiples, video, audio and electronic media. Both Partz and Zontal died of AIDS in 1994. Bronson continues to work and exhibit as an independent artist, and was the director of Printed Matter, Inc in New York between 2006 and 2011. The General Idea Archive now resides at the Library of the National Gallery of Canada.

Note: this issue has a few photographs of male and female genitals hand censored (with black marker) in a feature by Jim Dawson. Quite likely by the international distributor or Japanese vendor who originally sold this title. A common practice in Japan for imported publications at the time.

Good copy throughout, general wear for age/size.

File under: General Idea Francesco Clemente The Clichettes Robert Mapplethorpe David Byrne Pier Paolo Pasolini Kathy Acker Jean Genet David Byrne Guy Hocquenghem Art Official Inc. / Toronto Art Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Fashion Film / Video Sound / Music Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater

Soft as Art

1973, English
Softcover (stapled), 24 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by The New York Cultural Center / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Incredibly scarce exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 20 - May 6, 1973 at The New York Cultural Center. Includes the work of Hannah Wilke, Sig Rennels, Gillian Bradshaw-Smith, Jackie Ferr, Françoise Grossen, Harmony Hammond, Anne Healy, Al Loving, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rosemary Mayer, Brenda Miller, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Patricia Oleszco, Robert Rauschenberg, David Secombe, Richard Serra, Alan Shields, William Soghor, Frank Lincoln Viner, Jackie Winsor, and Nina Yankowitz. Includes black & white illustrations throughout, exhibition checklist and selected artist biographies. Introduction by Mario Amaya.
Fantastic, very rarely seen catalogue.

Condition: Very Good (a clean, tight copy throughout) - All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Al Loving Alan Shields Anne Healy Brenda Miller Claes Oldenburg David Secombe Françoise Grossen Frank Lincoln Viner Gillian Bradshaw-Smith Hannah Wilke Harmony Hammond Jackie Ferr Jackie Winsor Nina Yankowitz Patricia Oleszco Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Rauschenberg Rosemary Mayer Sig Rennels William Soghor Mario Amaya The New York Cultural Center / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First, hardcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

Very uncommon hardcover edition, with dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good (light wear to very good book and dust jacket, protected under acid-free plastic wrap. Small ex-library markings, stickers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

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Fashion and Surrealism

1996, English
Softcover, 238 pages, 23 x 30.5 cm
Out of print title / used*,
Published by Rizzoli / New York

$70.00 - Out of stock

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"The influence of Surrealism on fashion and its ancillary arts lasted decades longer than the movement itself. This catalog, accompanying a 1987 exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology, explores the extravagances of visual language as social and political comment, a revolution in perception."--The Library Journal.

"The love affair between fashion and Surrealism began in the Paris of the 1920s when Surrealist artists plundered fashion's imagery for their art, raising fashion beyond the level of mere style to an important expression of culture. This text reveals the extravagent and ingenious creations resulting from this collaboration. It ranges from the shocking Surrealist dresses of Schiaparelli and Dali, and photographic experiments with Surrealist techniques by Horst P. Horst, Cecil Beaton and George Hoyningen-Huene to the work of younger fashion designers, including Olivier Guillemin and Vivienne Westwood, who have all brought Surrealist imagery into clothing and accessories."

This bountiful, visually lavish volume, published to accompany a 1987 exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology, features the garments, paintings, sculptures, illustrations, window displays, fashion advertisements, costume designs and photography of Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Issey Miyake, Horst P. Horst, Cinzia Ruggeri, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Krizia, Giorgio De Chirico, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, Donatella, Rene Magritte, Comme des Garcons, Enrico Donati, Elsa Schiaparelli, Salvador Dali, Marcel Rochas, Jaques Griffe, Adelle Lutz, Marina Killery, Dominique Lacoustille, Emme, Stephen Jones, Louise Bourbon, Bill Cunningham, Germaine Vittu, Eric Braagaard, Karl Lagerfeld, Candy Pratts Price, Serge Lutens, Antonio, Linda Fargo, Claude Montana, Georgina Godley, Olivier Guillemin, Yves Tanguy, Christian Lacroix, Valentine Hugo, Paul Colin, Francoise Lesage, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Cocteau, Adam Kurtzman, Herbert Bayer, Mel Odom, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alfa Castaldi, Leo Malet, Jorge Silvetti, Gabriella Giandelli, Givenchy, Marcel Jean, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Michael Roberts, Marcel Vertés, Bert Stern, John Galliano, Danuta Riyder, Paul Delvaux, Manolo Blahnik, Dorothea Tanning, Eileen Agar, Miguel Covarubias, Cristobal Balenciaga, Andre Masson, Leonor Fini, Roman Cieslewicz, Shoji Ueda, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Bruce Weber, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. M. Cassandre, Peter Lindbergh, Claude Cahun, Jean Arp, and so many more.

Condition: Good – (some internal stamping/stickers from ex-library, light creasing, otherwise clean, tight throughout) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

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